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Public Administration Review

Volume 38                            JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1978                                  Number  1


EDITORIAL-The End of the   Beginning .....................................................      iii
NEW   MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDITORS ............................................... iv


SYMPOSIUM

Productivity in Government............................................ Walter L. Balk, Symposium Editor
   Introduction ................................................................    Walter L. Balk  1
   The National Economy and Productivity in Government ............... Nancy Hayward and George Kuper 2
   Productivity Programs in the Federal Government ...................................... Donald Kull 5
   Wisconsin's Progress with Productivity Improvements................................ Patrick J. Lucey  9
   The Impact of Three Years of Experience and a New Governor on the State
     of Washington's Productivity Program  .......................................... Raymond Ryan 12
   City and County Productivity Programs ....................................... Frederick O'R. Hayes  15
   A Conversation with Victor Gotbaum .......................... Victor Gotbaum and Edward Handman 19
   State and Local Government Productivity and the Private Sector ......................... R. Scott Foslerl 22
   The Status of Productivity Measurement in the Public Sector ........................... Harry P. Hatry 28
   Productivity Analysis: A Search for Definition and Order ........... Jesse Burkhead and Patrick J. Hennigan 34
   Productivity and the Process of Organizational Improvement: Why We Cannot Talk to Each Other ..........
                                                                                   Robert E. Quinn 41
   Toward a Government Productivity Ethic  ........................................... Walter L. Balk  46


ARTICLES

Technology Assessment in a Dialectic Key ....................................... Giandomenico Majone 52
Team-building in the Local Jurisdiction: Two Case Studies.......... William C. Giegold and Richard J. Dunsing 59
Local Officials' Reaction to Federal Capacity Building ........ William A. Jones, Jr., and C. Bradley Doss, Jr. 64


PUBLIC   MANAGEMENT FORUM

   Public Administration is Alive and Well-And Living in the White House .................. David R. Beam  72
   Sunset Implementation: A Positive Partnership to Make Government Work ............................
                                                                     Bruce Adams and Betsy Sherman 78
   Is University Training Practical? Perspectives of Public Personnel Officials ........... Frank J. Thompson 82


BOOK   REVIEWS

The State and Human Services: Toward a Human Service Rights Policy .................. Edward Humberger 85
   The States, Administration and the Individual, Michael Hill-The State and the Family, Considerations for Social
   Policy, Robert Moroney-Paper Victories and Hard Realities: The Implementation of the Legal and Constitu-
   tional Rights of the Mentally Disabled, Valerie Bradley and Gary Clarke (eds.)-Insanity: Inside Out, Kenneth
   Donaldson
Ethnicity as a Strategic Option: An Emerging View  .................................... Peter K. Eisinger  89
   Ethnicity: Theory and Experience, Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, (eds.)-Interethnic Relations, E.K.
   Francis-Pursuing the A merican Dream: White Ethnics and the New Populism, Richard Krickus-Ethnic Families
   in America: Patterns and Variations, Charles H. Mindel and Robert W. Habenstein (eds.)
Campaign Management in Transition Or The Party's Over ........................ Richard J. Stillman, II 93
   The Management of Election Campaigns, Robert Agranoff-The New Style in Election Campaigns, Robert Agra-
   noff (ed.)-Yorty: Politics of a Constant Candidate, John C. Bollens and Grand D. Geyer-Election Campaign
   Handbook, Daniel M. Gaby and Merle H. Treusch-Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, Doris Kerns-
   Changing Campaign Techniques: Elections and Values in Contemporary Democracies, Louis Maisel-Presidential
   Elections: Strategies of A merican Electoral Politics, Nelson W. Polsby and Aaron Wildavsky- The Political Cam-
   paign Handbook: Media, Scheduling and Advance, Arnold Steinberg-Political Campaign Management: The
   Systems Approach, Arnold Steinberg-The Act of Politics: Electoral Strategies in Campaign Management, James
   Brown and Philip Seib


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